27 MAY 1871, Page 2

Fortunately for us, General Butler has expressed as much dis-

satisfaction with the fisheries part of the Treaty as Mr. Sumner has expressed with that which regulates the Alabama claims. He has opposed it before the Committee of the Massachusetts Legis- lature, declaring that the American fisheries would be ruined, and that the American Commissioners had been overreached through- out the negotiations. General Butler and Mr. Sumner have done their best to reconcile Great Britain to the Treaty, and deserve our best thanks.